Mercury 03 Mercury Rests by Robert Kroese

Mercury 03 Mercury Rests by Robert Kroese

Author:Robert Kroese [Kroese, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781612185842
Amazon: 1501292285
Publisher: 47North
Published: 2012-10-22T21:00:00+00:00


TWENTY

Mercury watched from a crack in the utility room closet as his double was escorted through the planeport by security. “Poor bastard,” he muttered. “I hope they’re not too hard on me.”

The only thing that had saved him the first time around was the mysterious appearance of the battered and unconscious Gamaliel in the planeport. He still wasn’t sure who had actually captured Gamaliel and brought him to the planeport, but he hadn’t complained about them giving him credit for it. Hopefully whoever had caught him last time would catch him again this time around. Otherwise, past-Mercury was going to be in a lot of trouble, with no “tokens of goodwill” to help balance the scales. They’d lock him up for a couple hundred years at least. Uzziel would never assign him to retrieve the missing Attaché Case of Famine, which meant that he would never be captured by Tiamat’s agents and brought to Finch’s facility in Kenya, which meant that he would never fly the anti-bomb to the moon and be transported to the post-Apocalyptic future, which meant that he would not now be here in a utility closet, watching himself be marched down the concourse by cherubim with flaming swords.

He shook his head. That sort of thinking could drive a cherub crazy. He couldn’t worry about what would or wouldn’t happen to the other Mercury and how that would affect him in the present. Or the future, or whatever it was. The important thing was that he was now a step ahead of Tiamat and Finch: he knew what they were up to, and now that the other Mercury was in custody, he could slip back down to the Mundane Plane and intercept the glass apple before Christine ever found it. He’d deliver the anti-bomb to the authorities and then tell them about Wormwood, saving the Earth and Heaven. Not bad for a day’s work.

But not quite yet. He had to wait for Perp to get back to help him get out of the planeport safely. At this point, while he wasn’t technically wanted anymore, security still might stop him, thinking he’d escaped. Then they’d have two Mercurys in custody, which would be extremely difficult to explain—especially to the other Mercury.

After another three hours, he began to worry. What was taking Perp so long? Presumably, he’d have taken the Megiddo portal, which meant that he should have returned a good hour before the other Mercury turned himself in. The flight from the Megiddo portal to the Azores and back from the Middle East would take about eight hours. That was about a four-hour flight each way. But it had been almost eleven hours now since Perp had left.

Finally, the door opened, and an exhausted-looking Perp fluttered inside and closed the door behind him.

“Demon dogs, Perp!” exclaimed Mercury. “What the hell took you so long? I thought I was going to have to come out of the closet on my own. Er, you know what I mean.”

“You know,” replied Perp irritably, “I do have a job to do around here.



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